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|, EDITORIAL PAGE March 21, | Friday, 1919 Trialof Work-Council Plan To Be Givenby 28,034 Men In 17 Harvester Plants The New Labor Idea Provides Equal Representation for Employees and Managers on Works Coun- ] cils—No Discrimination Against Any Employee Because of Membership in Any Labor Organi \ Don't Like Him” | 66 I ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPIT PULITZER. - Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 ‘kk Row, New York. RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row, | J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer,'63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr, 8 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Associated Prose fe exclusively entitied to the vse for remblication of att a to Tr or not otherwise credited in this paper and ale the local news publisved herein, VOLUME 59. O. 21,031 i THE TEST QUESTION. Se HY didn’t President Lowell of Harvard University put (his! question to Senatos Lodge zation—Right of Employees to Make Complaints to Works Councils With Further Right of Appeal From Decisions of the Council—All Expenses of ; Suppose this drafted covenant of a League of Nations, with minor clarifications, proves to be the only one prac- : ticable and attainable through the agreement of the nations the Works Councils to Be Borne by the Company whose participation is recognized as most needed to insure the 66 HIG Joha“D, Rooketlar Je, plan of representation in Indus League's success; | which fourteen of our American works and our three Canadian orks hav v , : Will Senator Lodge vote to have the United States in no works have adopted by vote of our employees, is designed to { establish closer relations between employees and the management. The officers and directors of the International Harvester Company pledge their best efforts to carry it out in letter and spirit “The plan provides a ‘Works Council’ in which representatives elected by the employees shall have equal voice and vote with the management in the consideration of matters of mutual interest. It guarantees to every employee the right to present any suggestion, request or complaint and to have it promptly considered and fairly decided. Provision is also made for League of Nations rather than in one established upon the 1 articles of the proposed covenant? i That is the real te Senator Lodge and others seem to lose hit of the fact that the covenant as it now stands is the result of already extended diteussion,| | scrutiny, claim, counter-claim, and compromise on the part of abl: impartial arbitration. H ay, , ‘ ‘ “Guarantee of the rights of labor unions is provided in Article 18 of representatives of the powers chiefly concerned, Pp ed in Article 18 o! i P es I Hes| the Industrial Council laws, which reads: i That those powers would consent to a covenant radically revised | “There shall be no discrimination under this plan against any em- 5 and redrawn with a special view to the exclusive interests of any | ployee because of race, sex, political or religious affiliation or membership ; f them, is in the highest degree improbabl * in any labor or other organization.’ } one of the im Ie in the highest degree improbable. | “It is my hope and belief that the which has caused most of the clashes As President Lowell points out, admitting that the covenant A plan will materially strengthen our |between employers and Jabor unions. ‘ not perfect and that “even when perfected it will not be perfect”: relations in the work we have in| AS the International Harvester Com- . | common and will make for the greater |Pany employes have adapted the plan 3 “In the najure of things it is an attempt to harmonize contentment and well being of us ail.” It their own necessities it provides | a loyees shall have equal ’ ; the views of many nations and of many people within each Go ° Piedb edie e equal repre~ ‘i ran : Pecilsg Hewaas 6 ‘ vena ne Marott Ee & Oonruccte sentation with the management @! . le is pi ‘omise ve: es views, om Vo »’ + . the riniogubay pay sins ake el ti President International Harvester Works Councils; wt : ; promise is the very Mfe blood of all legislation; where the Company. 2, Employees’ representatives afratf ’ _ unsatisfactory and the evil, if you will, must be taken with ‘a |be elected by secret ballot, employees jhaving the power of employment and |discharge being debarred from yot« jing: 3. Each two bundred to three hun- dred employees in a works shall be en- Utled to elect one representative, but no works group of employees shall be represented by less than five of their ‘he good and for the sake of the greater good.” By Frederick Lawrence The International Harvester Com- pany, largest manufacturers of farm implements in* the world, has seven- teen plants in the United States, of which only three rejected the above That greater good ig something from which Senator Lodge and} ° | “other opponents of the present covenant are too ready to turn aw ‘their faces. The greater good in this case is an attainable means of reducing! the future probability of war. plan. No Canadian plant rejected it. | fellow workers; A total of 28,034 votes were cast by| 4. Works groups shall have the Yet Senator Lodge would reject that means because he thinks the employees, of which 10,150 were |power to recall any representative the Senate of the United States has a grievance in not having been against the plan. Each of the twenty d works voted for or against the pro- posal to make the plan operative in for any or no cause; 5. Meetings between the five mana sufficiently condulted; because a Democratic President has been in| agement representatives and the five iti i vorks, The three plants|employee representatives shall be a position where he was bound to do his best to represent the Ameri-| its own wor re ‘ : + which rejected the plan were Me-| held once a month, can people in reaching an agreement as to the means without the Cormick, Chicago, for 2.260, against] 6. The Works Councils shall receive direct help of the Senate. ‘ Republican Senatorial instinct is to manoeuvre into a position 1,056; 1 actor, Chicago, for 1,005. against 1,176; McCormick Twine, Chi- cago, for 308, against 432 Plants which adopted the plan were: For Against complaints from individual employees direct or through an employee's re- presentative, and the complainant shall have the right to appear per- | sonally and plead his cause; ‘where the greater good is shut from view by the intervening figure of re the President surrounded by every objection, fault and danger that ieee § we Ea Deering, Chicago 100 1,910 ould the complainant Be dis ‘ i 5 ee * “ i: oases PIT sere ‘ Keystone, Sterling, I 191 10| satisfied with the decision of the partisan imagination can conjure up. — — -- ~ — ee Auburn, New York........1,100 177| Works Council he shall have the right Senator Lodge, nevertheless, shows frequent misgiving lest the H ow t Oo B Q fal B e t rE er | h e ] arr F am l l y Akron, Ohio... 14° Slot! appeal! to the’ president ot) the 1 4 7 Milwaukee, Wis.. 1,096 |company, and if still dissatisfied his KS greater good may not be, after all, too. big to hide. His objections Springfield, Ohio... 54|cause of complaint may be submitted H % are interspersed with: “Perhaps the time has come to do it”; “I do S a l esman | By Roy L., McCardell Rie COBBAN: 10045 sarge taeaet Nea erent it.” Copyrigh ” lahing © . is Plano, Ill. 29 expenses of the Works Coun- | not say the time has not come to do it. Sonate, 2818, by ine Freee Saaening Ot: (he: Bee: 25% Mowing: Week) 79| cils shall be borne by the company, 4 : “ ; Mrs. Jarr Proves That Absent Friends Are | and the company shall pay the wages va He repeats again and again that he “wants a La e of Nations n arn lgger ay B R pores A saclay hest FE Re aecnsennte ‘low Works, Canada ot all persons who are necess 4 oy ; that will advance the cause of peace on earth, that will make war as| By R G Py serail ora est feeubern Vere Re Tene elie Cul duntes & canine vara A A ‘ ; 5 i “ce A MUDR D is] “Why not?! asked Mr, Jarr A nN. ¥ ey 9. Al : ¢ : ; nearly impossible as it can be made. Me oy riffith ( still at Palm Beach and she] “Oh, it only gives such people a ee ee ied Na Rast cesteions)aiall: bea . i neers | The Eve Id's Auth j an ce e obildre: chance to crow ove: aid Mra. | © Ladbas ai dE : ; i To advance the cause of peace on earth, will he accept a League | he Fveola| Werlten Authority en) Auseseetul rales manetilp ebetk has mat CS eae at phanve to craw ater 798 anid Ber "| Steel Works, So, Chicago. .1,12 A distinctive feature of tho plan es ; Tati : ‘nag P of picture cards, (That's nice of her, |Jarr, ut I'm sure 1 wouldn't brag |iron Mines, Minn .....- 128 adopted is that no length of service | of Nations to be realised now on the least imperfect plan that civilized Being Your Own Sales Manager. said Mrs, Jarr. Avot: being in ‘Pale Banoh. Pala| gay tee core Woche keys Gay Attlee ered neces cea y . , J d Mr, Ja “Its eae "ts ‘lar. Ne e : eae 4 5 > 4» peoples can evolve and agree to at the present stage ? | OBW salesmen are trong enough, )1¢ he does fail of his goal one day he | Wh yess’ replied Mr. dare, Vea teach ian't so far. Now. if she sent] rie outstanding feature of the|right to vote for works representa. : j Gr wailchavel 7 , i : \ iF unalded, to intelligently or-|has just that much of a handicap on Aste rp ee to Lashaaed oft ic baihd beanie ad si \, aan Park . plan is the creation at each of the|tives, Other companies require from ‘ 4 r will he choose rather to have no present League at all an nize the forces within them] succeeding days, because, in the final |“7e" When she is away on a pleasure |Cuba, or something like that, it would |H ON O° 1 Sl a Oe Sorus| three to six months’ service, Gd | 4 veek or a | A little remembrance like that|be worth being envious about." mn se let the cause of peace on earth take its chance in a nebulous groping |p Such a manner as to eliminate | reckoning, at the end of a week or a hardly anything but it shows| “I thought I heard you say she was|Counc!! for the consideration of| The directors of the International ¢ a i waste motion and get the most out} month, he will total his sales and ge bs Mis acct 4 working conditions, health, safety,| Harvester Company decided to sum aa after impracticable perfection ¢ ae thetibiivaa What le pencn this eras rae peeks ople are thinking of you going to Atlantic City?" said Mr, : ¥ i \ rN r ; ‘ ief them vas : in i nan bate Ni his daily average, And hi ° mu t * NOH: MOR SeiBS Te alee ie GIA cooks |Gaee. hours of labor, wages, recreation,| mit the plan to the employees as @ : ic Let Senator Lodge and others who try to see the least that ism) WPY sma are nec ¥-i determined that this daily average} | 4 4 cata ath “ education and all other matters of| result of their conviction that labor ) brccacith [arenas to eiveealeamen | ipienims ores? | anything to speak of,” said Mrs. Jarr She was there, and then went to ‘ nen ; ; 7 1 prop & Will not fall below the mark he has | |, ni common interest between employees | js entitled to a voice with the man« ina i the covenant be honest with themselves and answer the real questioa| readers a little “inside stuff” which! set for himself jor Clara Mudridge-Smith wouldn't, Palm Beach,” replied Mra, Jarre, | * | S00 MAnAERI Ant Golleativa bATEAIDS| aacinoht in Aeolding the eondl ‘ & set for sel apes % Biers fee ated “ay and mané ent, Co! =| ay c! tons - oh peice taba aa [tay help them to be their own sales] On the other mand, a salesman |), KUNE Ue Uh eMense, ti at | peice wea oe, Atiantle City oUF ling on question of wages in conceded | under which the men shall work, Im q | manager, as it we At least, it will : aac sf » noo hink, yway, tha e selves,” said Mr, Jarr, “We can do|, * . ° a j 7 ' e Peis os aan é ene f |miwht reach his dally goal by NOOR | tim to show us sho was off having| that, at least.” by the management, and discrimina-|q statement issued from the execu ¥ i Fifty out of sixty-seven Missouri Democrats in the State jhelp them to accomplish more, some days, Is he going to lay off see ELe ell od tion against labor union members 28) tive offices of the company in Chicage j i i House of Representatives caucus dacided that Jim Reed is no | When an army is about to attack, | work for the day because he has done | * £ed me while we couldn't! That's) “Oh, you can go if you want to,”| os utely prohibited, it is unofficially published that: credit to Missouri in the United States Senate. It's the pride the different army units are sive! nis predetermined day's work? Not | MY most People-send those old post | said Mrs. Jarr, "I'd only be in your The most advanced thinkers among| “The dire tea deslate 4040 Gale ‘ aus ; fs 7 ’ cards. | way, e mos ‘anced " 8 bdadbanrhint i of Misxc 8 that to be shown, ‘Dhey were. Hite “objective” which they are] i¢ ne is wise, He is going to keep] ., cae tH + > ‘oble e ar- | pro ‘ elopment ot je i . of Missourans that fhey have to be sho ney « vast at age They are| right on purging is ae Oh, 1 wouldn't say that,” replied] “What do you mean by that?” askea | Students of labor problems have ar progressiv » development of the com ‘ etree silliest ons ; t hank 2 sected bugging, Mr. Jarr, | Mr. Jarr, “I eald we'd both go. rived at the conclusion that this plan,| pany'’s industrial policy which hee 2 i bmetimes is absolutely) into @ “slump” and he will need a racei aoe ch a 7 — vides ‘ WALL IT OUT. inpossible for them to reach thelr | itty oxcet Teal eee ed dare. “Look at all the people whom |Mrs, Jarr. “1 can tell. Mrs, Bolger|stensthens them—that it provides inauguration of the weekly pay eyes ahi vall hats Wats deen abt aliet |i : ein one we know who go to California Or |o¢ Philadelphia says it is something|# ‘faining school for the unions. The|tem and the basio eight-hour day, i HE Jine-up of organized labor against attempts to spr RHE SeMBUAL WMNUAT RE: tue Segaite |“ Pee average i Hawaii, How they get the money | terrible the way the men in that town|*4¥antage to employers that springs) and till earlier in the voluntary : ; ‘ he essen alue of the ¢ n setting a goal for yourself you| go to those places I don’ ow, and| a F 1 the unions lies in| age Y 4 ; Bolshevist-L, W. W. propaganda among the 120,000 garment |order. Without an “objective,” the | snould not attempt ah right at (a7 to shone, places T don't know) ANH | go down to Atlantic City and never| {rom strenmtnening Whe OR Ona es SA adoption of & Workmen's aocdame 4 H : 3 » Pros s Aare MWR al SORE SLL A jot attempt too much right atl sy it is best not to ask! BUt\take their wives along, but if their| Me closer intimacy between managers | compensation plan antedating Ameri« i workers in New York City through methods described by |army ns frst. Don't give yourself an “objec-|they never give a thought to you till | wives went and cidn't tell thel * and,employees, the quick adjustment| can jegistation on that subject, as : Frederick Lawrence in The Evening World is part of a campaign |SMountered any very stubborn fe |tive that you probably eouldn’t| ey do go, and then, as soon as they |bandy they were going there mould ge] f irritating incidents, the protection | wei as the harvester pension plan, i | SetaboR, On Bley LEO) beod! = reach, unless a miracle happened. Be] get there, they commence to shower ‘ *lof each employee against injustice ake th that cannot be too vigorously out in the interest of workers in! wiidered, not knowing where they ® i a pretty row.” wholly supported by the company, ; i X 4 ing reasonable, Base amount of sale ou NM pictures of palm trees, and . done by overbearing and ignorant] ‘as employe fl the United State jwere going or what Ht was they had! yoy determine to get on the amount Pa ee ee ae ee pen ; A Person can't say a thing soe He me a ee yuent consul (ents oer oP pay gy ao . set out to d to yor » ke geestion,” - sf b be M i " os 2A ' Revolutionary doctrines aiming at the establishment of Sovie iy a th the sates. |°% Miles Your past experience tells} and the Beach Waikaiki, and all those peels $ tine , Viggen eons Sald | tations on questions affecting wage ployees’ Benefit Association, which in ( E governments in the United States will never make much impreasion| man. No eatoerman ts ever 200 per [77d ZOU Mahe reasonably expect, Md things you have seen pictures of | MY 3M yut what you talk that) 44 hours, The plan removes count: | ton years has paid out more than 88 1 8 ; e : ai PPeAeIOn | san Aloammian is ever 100 Per)” A woodeman foat In th rest does | dozens of times! It only costs them we causes of trouble before they |00,0W to employees aud thelr fame 1 on the great body of sane, intelligent, clear-headed American labor, [cents successful unloue ho has oa i not attempt to keep straight on walks Jy few vents and they scraw! on them | ee YALE BURRS IRN should suggest) i.come vexatious, the existence of | illes. - } Nevertheless, Bolshevism in s country has shown itself capable of | {Ute “etective” to work toward. A | ing in order to get out of the forest. | ‘Having a grand time,’ and think it | S0!ns to Atlantic City as soon as you} _ a see seaeee ts piieniei ai aneeten oy ' : Pita : mere desire to succeed or to make lif he did, he woud soon find himself] will make you mad," found out that Clara Mudridge-Bmith ’ i jo Stirring up sporadic trouble, particularly where certain nationalities | money is not enough, He must know | walking around in « elrel “Rut Mrs. Mudridge-Smith isn’t in| Md been there!” remarked Mrs, Jar, From an Inventors Note Book € * of foreign workers are least mixed with others, Russian propa.) "hat he started out to aconin phen Jhe picks out a tree a short dis California or Hawaii, she is at Pain tae that 2 core, and act that I'm/§ 7 ble those unacquainted with| hydro-electric power that would 4 sts circularize employees in industries where the American Fe he must have # certain fed goal in| anead and walks toward that par-| Beach, you say?" said Mr. Jarr, jealous: 9 eRAnIC Mom ne fey hap ee i 1 gandists circ id ee Ors 4 es whero the American Fod-| view, rng + manager very often |tioular tree: Then he picks out ane] “Oh, yes, she's at Paim Beach, She | “Why should you be," said Mr, Jarr,| any sign language to converse with| largely pay for the investment, 1 eration of La bor is s sure of its influence and where radi c fixes the goal for the salesman, He] other trea a little further ahead ana {sent us a picture of a hotel from some | "I only suggested that we might run| deaf mutes a Frenchman has invented! ager jengthy experimenting, New ; ments are restless under what they regard the undue slowness | spurs the man on in every way. | jn rame general direction and|place and wrote on it “This has been | down there for a little trip, a device resembling a typewrite |Zealand Government chemists have { and conservatism of the unions. Often he offers priges for the largest] watks toward that, This enables him|turned into a sanitarium. But she} “But such a thing never occurred to| which raises letters to spell words 48) succeeded in separating dirt from iu Off: f the G Work it roy amount of sales, Inaugurates Contests, |to walk straight ahead and'in time|wouldn’t have done that only there | you till I spoke of that Clara Mud-| keys are pressed, A i kauri gum and increasing its yleld ; Mf ieers of the Garment orkers hions in New York have jand so forth, He "cranks" the sales: | ne gets out of the forest. is a sign on the building reading, | ridge-Smith having been there," said ORR IOnD NAR Kaan SPRRIRCA DistGk of oil, largely used in varnish making, a 4 already issued an appeal to loyal union members to organize against {man when he should be, and could] The salcsman cannot go ahead with |'Hippocrates Hall." I'm sure I don’t | Mra. Jarr, eer r for a captive balloon that 1s} Bellows inclosed in He electric flash ' the “Reds” and leave Bolshevist principles no standing room with) P&: # “Mlestarter his Work and be really successful |see Why sho sent such a card to met”) "Yes, that did put it in my mind,"| Ooo ‘alr heated by an electric! tight by a Connecticut inventor eute- an Hep Ea amen uid pot @ certain | without m definite objective” 36 But she sent them to the childron,| said Mr, Jarr, “But 1 thought if she A Tinta Gaaket ana Gone | eatlcally cute Gretna ourene .4_ the sound American ideals. |definite goal for himscif, He should| may produce some business, but It is aid," remarked Mr, Jarr. could go we could go." heater barge in ie. Doe Pegg abs rey Ap ya oe a Hy mB» - The policy of the\American Federation of Labor throughout the | decide that he would sell so many|not maximum. business, Without an he knew I'd ace them,” said Mre.| “Oh, don't try to wet out of it!” said) Hected with @ current supply on the) tie alle © ae been awltched om te H country should be an enlargement of this local action, 'The surest |e! 4 day, resardiess of the site| “objective,” the salesman ix quite apt|Jarr, “What interest is it to me that) Mrs, Jarr, | SreUDd, ear Al: mee ee ‘ of those order Or he might decide 5 } 4 4 hotel has been turned into a sani- “I'll try to get out of here!" cried Bi fle can see where his bul- Acetylene is expected to come inte of Bolshevism is a stout 1 of Amer ) to find himself walking around in al4 2 So a rifleman can see where his bi | _ safeguard against the spread of Bolshevism is a stout wall of Am "lvl that he was going to sell a certain |oircle without getting anywhere in |tarlum? Mr, Jarr as he grabbed his hat, And) jets go an Ohio man has brought out|Seneral use for lighting in Denmark, ; can self-respect and common sense around all centres in the United amount every day. ‘Then ne should | particular, “It was a delicate way to inform | he never stopped till he got in Gus's target which, when penetrated, ex-|as the Government has named a come 4 States where labor is chiefly concentrated, so to work wih bulldog determina-| In picking out your “objective,” re- (you that hero was & 7s Pine Sor | Biace .,| Unguishes all lights in front of it and) Mission to pass upon lempe sold and , ‘ |tlon to reach the goal he had set for) member the woodsman and do not|you to come for your health,” sug-) “What will you have, landsman?”! shows a light,trom the back through| Way. ” ® Casily obtained from Meme | \ er per himself is ne matter $ sales, no| get your goal too far ahead, Don't meated Mr, et bog asked Gu fhe nullat holm euae ) Senator Lodge closed, some one called for matter if he had to work until mid-|be too ambitious, But when you have| “It was @ delic i'm desparate,” said Mr. Jarr. Bi 8.58 For motor trucks a fender Bae fe e ae Rare Stat ip “snes sheats night some nights, reached ihe average of sales you|Me that she was away during\this| "Give me @ Bryan cocktail—a prune) French plans for making the Rhone} been invented that 18 80 mounted on man in the Ur Of courme, no salesman is going to| originally determined on, then set up |Rasty Weather and 1, nas wnok hark, nd Mtrange to aay, Gus had it| River navigable trom Switzerland to/aprings a8, to earn, The See J repli va, Jarr, “ 5 a . : y happen si ee his pariatier goal every day. snetier. And # trifle more difffeult tte When she, comes bacts WN not soney.to serve—he is preyaring for a| Marseilles contemplate Led use of fo, push them away from in from @olng to fail down occasionally, | target to shoot at, say anything W her,’ day to comel wre. locks, from which could produced wheels, rc a